Chapter 711: Bold Li Juan, the effect of metaphysics

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, before Li Qing Xia returned, Li Long finally heard a piece of good news he had been looking forward to after returning to the team:

The superiors were preparing to build a road—the road from the Fourth Team to the township was to be built from the current dirt road into a sand and stone road.

The Fourth Team was the furthest village team in the east of the whole township. Further northeast was a certain company of the Corps. Going to the county from there could only pass through the Fourth Team, and there was only a donkey cart road that could pass with other companies.

In later generations, there was also a road from the Fourth Team directly to the Wuyi Highway in the southeast, which was considered the big ring road of Ma County, but it would take thirty years for this road to be built.

Being able to build a sand and stone road now was already very good. After all, the dirt land was usually dusty, and it was full of mud soup when it rained; it was too difficult to walk.

According to the notification given by Xu Chengjun after he went to the township for a meeting, this was the country paying for each township and region to build roads, which was considered the earliest prototype of village-to-village connectivity.

What made Li Jianguo somewhat unexpected was that building a road was no longer like digging a big canal in the past, where each village had to contribute public labor, and villagers didn't need to pay money either. Everyone just had to wait for the road to be built and use it.

When Li Jianguo told Li Long this news, he sighed and said:

"In the past, when digging big canals and building roads, we all brought dry food to work, working all day, so tired that we didn't want to eat dinner and just wanted to sleep, and that was one work point a day. At that time, we didn't know how to save strength when working. The blood blisters ground on our hands the day before, the second day they were ground rotten, and the third day they came out again... really bitter."

Li Long didn't speak silently. He was still young in that era and didn't know about this matter at all. When he first came, he just knew how to play around. Later, when he was older, he ran out every day and only went home when he was tired and hungry.

Thinking about it now, it was really considered enjoying a clear blessing.

After all, among peers, like these Xu Haijun, which one didn't work with their family members when they were ten or twelve years old? He even helped work in Gu Ermao's field for a day.

Was that guy about to be released soon?

The road was built from the inside out, which was starting from the Fourth Team, first pulling sand and stone materials to unload on the road, then pushing it flat with a bulldozer, and then pressing it with a road roller.

After all, it was just paving a sand and stone road, and it didn't need to be so troublesome.

"Next year, the team will also drill a machine well," Li Jianguo continued, "It's planned to be at the place opposite the old horse station."

The Fourth Team had three residential points: one in the southeast, which was where Li Jianguo and the others were; one in the east, which was Gu Bowan's side; and one in the west near the reed ditch.

The old horse station was in the middle of the three residential points, on the north side of the road. Thinking about it, drilling a machine well on the south side of the road should mainly be to facilitate villagers' drinking water—after all, in the records of the superiors, the drinking water of the Fourth Team's residents was mainly based on ground wells.

This kind of ground well water was usually only two or three meters deep, and the water was very alkaline. Drinking it for a long time was easy to get sick.

They didn't know that in reality, most households in the Fourth Team had drilled pressure wells, at least ten meters deep. The water quality was certainly no problem, there was no salty or alkaline taste, and the old people in the village all said that drinking this water was really sweet.

Li Long didn't feel any sweetness, but it was at least much better than the original well water.

The seepage layer was deep.

The previous life also drilled a machine well in these two years. At that time, the Fourth Team didn't have the changes of the present, and very few people drilled pressure wells. So, after the machine well was drilled, everyone pulled donkey carts and horse carts to the machine well to get water—of course, the time for getting water was also fixed, once a week.

Turning on the machine well cost electricity, so the water manager would notify everyone on the loudspeaker when turning on the well, and then every household would come to get water.

Li Long used a donkey cart at that time, and what he used to hold it was a modified gasoline barrel—the barrel body was hooped with two donkey cart outer tires at both ends as shock absorption. The barrel was placed flat, and a square opening about the size of a book was opened on it, which was convenient for pouring water into it.

The original oil outlet was welded shut, and a hole was opened on one side of the barrel, and a steel pipe was welded as a water outlet. A rubber tube was sleeved on the steel pipe for extended use.

Many households had such water barrels. After the machine well released water, each household took turns approaching the machine well. The clumsy ones directly used water barrels to catch water and pour it into their own water barrels; the smart ones directly poked a rubber tube into the machine well pipe mouth, and the other end was put into their own water barrel, which was convenient.

The machine well pipe mouth had a diameter of fifteen to twenty centimeters, and the water output was large. The water tower built on the side was used for filtering sand. The water pressure was large, and it would directly wash out a big pit at the falling water place, and then flow away along the ditch.

Those who didn't have time to pull water would come over to get water when they had time after the machine well stopped. If they needed water urgently, they would also take the water in this pit.

After all, the surroundings of the pit, including the inside, were Gobi stones, which were often washed by water and were quite clean.

Li Long vaguely remembered a matter. A mother and daughter in the village walked to the county. When they came back, they were tired and their bodies were dirty. Seeing no one around, they wiped their bodies by the pit, and then they were seen by students who came back and told their parents.

Those parents specifically ran to the mother and daughter's door to scold, scolding for nearly an hour—because everyone defaulted that the water in the pit was for drinking, and they would also warn students not to play with the water inside when passing by, and not to dirty it.

After this matter spread, for a long time, that family had no face to see people.

This year, the road started to be built, and next year, the machine well started to be drilled. History still moved forward according to the original trajectory, but the life of the people in the team had actually changed a lot.

Li Long guessed that there might still be a task of reed bundles this year, but it was still a period of time away from that. Currently, there was nothing to do at home, and he would occasionally return to the team to help.

The rice had been harvested. Li Long bought a lot of new rice, part of which was left at his eldest brother's place and part of which was pulled back to the big courtyard.

People in the team were harvesting the remaining crops in the field. Oil sunflowers, corn, one by one were collected from the field to the wheat field, and finally collected into bags. Part of them were pulled to the Grain Bureau to become part of the public grain, part were sold to traffickers to become grain at a different price, and part were left at home for self-use.

This day, Meng Hai from Qingshuihe drove a donkey cart over and sent two yellow sheep to Li Long.

Li Long was a bit unexpected. While helping to unload the yellow sheep, he asked:

"Yellow sheep ran to your place?"

"Yes, a group. It just happened that the township armed forces department asked us to check the guns recently, preparing for winter training, so we hit some." Meng Hai smiled.

Li Long guessed the trick in it and didn't say anything.

"Recently, I also found that wild boars in the Southern Mountain also came out," Meng Hai said, "After a period of time, if I hit a wild boar, I will also send you one. There are especially many wild boar babies this year, all of which are 30 or 40 kilograms from spring to now, and the meat is especially tender."

Li Long was quite happy. He didn't expect that he could eat game without going into the mountains.

Meng Hai came here to send yellow sheep and had other things to do. After sending it, he drank a sip of water, chatted with Li Long for a few words, and left.

The yellow sheep were skinned, with skin and meat, and the internal organs were also washed clean.

This sincerity was really full.

Li Long looked at the meat. It was very fresh. It should be hit this morning. Now it was morning, which was to handle it immediately after hitting, and pull it over immediately after handling.

Not bad.

Sister Yang was looking at the children, feeding the two children milk. Li Long here first unloaded the meat of one of the yellow sheep, cut the meat with oil into small pieces, and prepared to boil oil.

The bones were prepared to be boiled—now it seemed that he had to find time to go to Wucheng to buy a refrigerator.

At this time, there were already refrigerators for sale in Wucheng, but Li Long hadn't taken care of it the previous few times, and hadn't thought of it.

Another thing was that his jeep was not easy to pull.

And he didn't know if there was one in Shicheng. He had to find time to see.

Sister Yang fed the two children milk, coaxed the children to play, and then prepared to cook lunch.

Li Long turned to look at the children, and at the same time took the meat and skin of the other yellow sheep and rubbed salt on them, planning to pull them to his eldest brother's side after eating lunch.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back from work and saw the air-dried yellow sheep meat hanging in the courtyard, she was also a bit unexpected.

"Sent from Qingshuihe, two heads. I plan to take one to eldest brother's side," Li Long said, "I will also send a leg to Old Luo Shu when the time comes."

"Good," Gu Xiaoxia had no opinion on this at all. The family really didn't lack meat to eat.

Gu Bowan was very envious and even jealous of Li Long's current situation of "sitting at home, meat coming from the mountains," but he ate ready-made food, so he would only say good.

At noon, he simply stir-fried yellow sheep meat. Sister Yang was now relatively good at handling this kind of wild animal, and it was fragrant.

After eating, the two children slept at noon, and Li Long drove the jeep to the team to send yellow sheep meat.

Big trucks had started to pull sand and stone materials to the road of the Fourth Team. The materials were piled on one side of the road, leaving half the place for vehicles to pass.

The reed ditch was expanded and dug to organize the roadbed on both sides. Li Long saw some yellow broken boards. The jeep drove out for a distance before reacting that it should be the coffin boards from before.

Li Long didn't pay attention either. Although this place was remote, it had always been inhabited since ancient times, but the population was relatively small, so when Li Jianguo and the others came to develop it, it was like wasteland.

Actually, there had always been human smoke.

He first arrived at Old Luo Shu's place, put down a lamb leg, and chatted with Old Luo Shu for a few words. Old Luo Shu let Li Long appreciate the bags of sugar residue dried in his warehouse, and also told Li Long that he was currently using this thing mixed with grass feed to feed the deer and roe deer.

There were several piles of wheat grass piled up on the edge of the old horse station, all piled separately. Li Long guessed that Old Luo Shu should be afraid of causing a fire and being wiped out, so he separated them.

Li Long thought about whether to get a pulverizer later. Otherwise, if he raised more cattle and sheep, the grass feed would be too wasteful according to the current way of eating. If he used a guillotine, it would be too tiring and relatively troublesome.

Leaving the old horse station, when he went to his eldest brother's house, he happened to meet Yang Xuebing in the village. Not only was Yang Xuebing there, but his daughter Yang Yuhong was also there. However, Li Long saw at a glance that Yang Yuhong's face was red, her breathing was rapid, and her spirit was not good. It was obvious that she had a fever.

"What's wrong?" Li Long took the meat down, put it in the kitchen, handed it to his sister-in-law Liang Yumei, and asked when he came out, "Why do you have a fever at this time?"

Although the weather was a bit cool in the morning and evening in this season, it wouldn't freeze people, so how could she have a fever?

Yang Xuebing was less than forty years old, and there was a son at home, and the family structure was the same as Li Jianguo's family.

Yang Yuhong and Li Juan were one year apart in age, and their relationship was very good. They often came to the Li family to play.

"I don't know either? After coming back from school yesterday, it was still okay. After eating and playing for a while, I went to sleep.

When I got up this morning, it was not right, and then I had a fever and a stomachache. This can't be seen because of what. Your brother gave an injection, and it didn't work..."

Li Jianguo was just a barefoot doctor. If he had a fever, he would either take medicine or get an injection. For this kind of injection that didn't work, he didn't know what to do.

That book didn't teach it, and the father-in-law didn't say such a situation either.

"If it doesn't work, go to the township," Li Jianguo said, "A child having a fever is not a small matter, and it can't be sloppy. This is also strange. Did your family not find anything else wrong?"

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"No," Yang Xuebing patted his thigh, "It was still fine last night... There was nothing wrong at home, the food was not a problem, and I slept at night covered with a quilt and didn't catch a cold."

"Then could it be that I bumped into something when I came back from school?" Li Jianguo asked.

Yang Xuebing shook his head.

Li Long said:

"Go, I'll send you to the township..." After he finished, he asked Yang Yuhong:

"Yuhong, what did you do when you came back from school yesterday afternoon?"

Yang Yuhong opened her eyes, looked at Li Long, then closed them, and shook her head.

Du Chunfang on the side suddenly said:

"Did you bump into something unclean? In the old home, there were children who went to the graveyard to play, and they had a fever when they came back, and it was like this..."

Li Long suddenly thought of the coffin boards in the reed ditch, so he asked again:

"Yuhong? Did you play in the reed ditch yesterday?"

Hearing Li Long ask this, Yang Xuebing was a bit puzzled.

Li Long didn't wait for Yang Yuhong to open her mouth, and explained:

"When I came back, I saw the road being built in the reed ditch, and many coffin boards were dug out in that area."

At this time, Yang Yuhong nodded and said "um".

Du Chunfang had an expression of "I knew it was like this" and said: "Find a woman to call it, and it will be fine."

Yang Xuebing seemed to understand something, immediately hugged Yang Yuhong, and left in a hurry.

Li Jianguo shook his head: "Scared."

Liang Yumei was a bit worried:

"Juan and she are so good, will there be anything?"

Li Long was also a bit worried, so he thought about waiting for Li Juan to come back to see the situation.

When Li Juan rode a bicycle and brought Li Qiang back, Li Qiang also complained:

"Dad, Mom! My sister rides the bike and shakes, and today she threw me twice."

Hearing this, Li Long was also worried. Would Li Juan have anything?

However, immediately he heard Li Juan refute:

"There were so many stone piles on the road, and so many were dug in the reed ditch. You were twisting in the back, so how could you not fall?"

Seeing that Li Juan was normal, Li Long was also relieved. Then he heard his sister-in-law Liang Yumei ask:

"Juan, do you know where Yuhong was playing yesterday?"

"I know," Li Juan propped up the bike, carrying her schoolbag, ready to enter the room, and said at the door.

"What did you do in the reed ditch?" Liang Yumei's expression suddenly became bad.

Li Juan was afraid of Liang Yumei, because her father was reasonable, and her mother would move the stick.

"It's okay, you say," Li Long said on the side, "Your mother won't hit you, just want to know what happened, Yuhong has a fever today."

"Deserved..." Li Juan said subconsciously, and then immediately explained to Liang Yumei, "Mom, I didn't mean that. She picked up a human skull yesterday, and then let me help her break the teeth on it. I didn't break them. I said if I broke them, wouldn't the teeth below bite me? Then she broke a tooth and put it in her pocket."

"What?" Liang Yumei widened her eyes, "What else?"

Li Long saw that Liang Yumei was ready to find the stick, and hurriedly blocked in the middle and said:

"Juan, you finish saying it all at once. As long as you didn't do this, it's okay."

"She also let me hold that bone back. I said if I held it back, my mother would beat me to death. I didn't want it. As a result, she held it back and said she wanted to hide it..."

Liang Yumei ran out before she finished listening. Li Long guessed that this should be running to the Yang family.

"This unlucky child..." Du Chunfang muttered on the side, "Can this thing be touched?"

Li Long listened and couldn't help but laugh. It was really ignorant and fearless. These two children were really bold!

He asked Li Juan another sentence:

"You really didn't touch it, right?"

"No," Li Juan knew her uncle was good to her, and said seriously, "I know that thing can't be touched, so I didn't move it at all."

"That's fine," Li Long knew this was considered a case.

Li Jianguo finished listening and shook his head:

"Scared."

Okay, anyway, his eldest brother Li Jianguo certainly didn't believe in those messy things.

Li Long was different. He was reborn, so what else didn't he believe in? Anyway, the end of science was metaphysics. This thing was not easy to explain. It might be a magnetic field, it might be epidemic gas, it might be...

Infinite possibilities.

When Liang Yumei came back, she said:

"There was just a tooth in Yuhong's pocket. That bone, she hid it in the corner of her own idle house."

Li Juan said with a sad face:

"She must know that I snitched, and she won't play with me later."

"Don't worry," Li Long said with a smile, "She will thank you later. This fever is not fun. Now she is uncomfortable."

"Much better," Liang Yumei said, "It's strange to say, once that thing was taken away and buried, Yuhong's spirit was much better."

"That's just scared," Li Jianguo was even more convinced of his judgment, "The thing is gone, and she's not scared anymore."

Okay, this explanation could barely be considered passable.

Seeing that Li Juan was fine, Li Long drove the jeep back. When passing by the reed ditch, he really vaguely saw bones.

There was also a pottery jar placed on the side of the road, with a red willow growing inside.

It was said that red willow could also ward off evil spirits. I don't know if it's true or false.

After returning home, Li Long told this matter as gossip to Gu Xiaoxia. Gu Xiaoxia didn't know how to explain it either.

After all, as an educator, she should believe in science, but this... science at least currently couldn't explain it well.

However, internally, Gu Xiaoxia remembered it. When the children were a little older, she couldn't let them come into contact with these things.

Li Long felt that boys should be bolder. Bold people have upright energy and shouldn't bump into messy things—could it also be explained by magnetic fields?

However, he didn't expect Li Juan, this child, to be so tiger-like, and not afraid at all. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 712 =====